Pharmacist at Mega Pharmacy

Long Term Care / Retail Pharmacy in Tacoma seeking a full time pharmacist in the Parkland/Lakewood area.

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Summary: This position's duties include providing pharmacy services in the Long Term care (LTC) and retail areas of our pharmacy. The pharmacist will be responsible for verification and provision of accurate, timely dispensing and preparation of medications. We service a number of assisted living and other healthcare facilities and provide weekly compliance packaging tailored to their needs. Korean patients are a large proportion of the retail side, and Korean language experience can be useful, but not necessary.

Anticipated shift: Usual schedule will be 5 days on during the weekday and every other Saturday on a rotating basis (we are closed Sundays). Schedule will be approximately 40 hours/week plus on-call service (weekends-Saturday and Sunday) on a rotating basis as needed

Compensation: Competitive salary and benefits depending on experience

Requirements:

- Current Washington State Pharmacist License in good standing

- Pharmacy graduate of an accredited college: PharmD or Rph

- Drivers license and reliable transportation

- Comply with all laws applicable to practice site

- Understands pharmacist role and function within legal scope of practice- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with customers and internal staff

- Ability to think quickly to resolve issues efficiently and ability to make proper decisions

- Must be flexible in work schedule as needed

- Must be organized and work efficiently/accurately while being able to handle frequent interruptions

- Excellent communication skills, work ethic, and character

- Excellent verification accuracy, attention to detail, and math skills

- Ability to work independently and provide excellent customer service

- Ability to work with a culturally diverse patient population

- Adequate computer skills -- windows operating system & Microsoft Word. Experience with RX30 a plus, though not required

Responsibilities (include, but not limited to):

- Verify the accuracy of all prescriptions leaving the pharmacy

- Know and follow State and Federal rules and laws

- Make clinical decisions for the pharmacy

- Make clinical recommendations to customers and health care providers

- Know and follow company policies and procedures

- Know and follow laws relevant to compliance packaging and services to Long-Term-Care facilities. Educate caregivers on compliance to rules and laws applicable to LTC facilities

- Stay current in professional obligations and education. Maintain current licensure

- Assist in managing pharmacy when the Pharmacist in Charge(PIC) is not present

- Assist in supervising pharmacy technicians and assistants

- Administer immunizations and other injections in pharmacy or on-site at assisted living facility or homes. Routes of administration include deltoid IM (i.e. influenza, risperidone long-acting injection) and gluteal IM (i.e. aripiprazole ER), etc.

- Manage LTC deliveries to ensure complete, efficient, on-time delivery

- Provide service as needed while on-call or referral (in-frequent)

Our pharmacy seeks to allow equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by law.

Required experience:

• Pharmacy: 1 year+

Required education:

• Bachelor's

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Paid time off